The Needham Human Rights Committee has decided to send a strongly worded letter to the regional and national offices of the Anti-Defamation League, demanding not only the unambiguous recognition of the Armenian genocide but support for the genocide resolution in Congress.

The committee made the decision at its Sept. 5 meeting, which was attended by dozens of Needham residents, Armenian activists, and others including Mark Sedaris, the vice-president of the Watertown Town Council, Watertown councilor-at-large Marilyn Petitto Devaney, and Holocaust scholar Jack Nusan Porter.

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